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Back in April, we brought you word that a movie based on the survival horror video game Five Nights at Freddy's was in the works at Warner Bros. from producers Roy Lee, Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg, and now Deadline is reporting that a filmmaker has been found to helm the project. Gil Kenan (MONSTER HOUSE, CITY OF EMBER, POLTERGEIST remake) is set to direct, and will also co-pen the film's script...
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By Jason Henderson, Drew Edwards, Tony Salvaggio, and Julia Guzman
Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Castle of Horror Podcast tonight, a weekly internet radio show where professional writers in the comics, games and book industries take a look at horror movies, choosing one movie a week to discuss in depth.
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This week we continue our Poltergeist Retrospective with Poltergeist III, because we are completists, by which we mean masochists.

By Jason Henderson, Drew Edwards, Tony Salvaggio, and Julia Guzman
Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Castle of Horror Podcast tonight, a weekly internet radio show where professional writers in the comics, games and book industries take a look at horror movies, choosing one movie a week to discuss in depth.
They say:
This week we continue our Poltergeist Retrospective with Poltergeist III, because we are completists, by which we mean masochists.

It takes a brave filmmaker to take on remaking POLTERGEIST. Thankfully, the fine gentleman who brought us MONSTER HOUSE and CITY OF EMBERS decided to have while still paying respect to the original. While the new film certainly has a different tone from Tobe Hooper directed, Steven Spielberg produced classic, in many ways this feels like a homage to it. And it also happens to feature a strong cast, with Sam...
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Two of my favorite actors today happen to be Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt. And frankly, they give everything they do some serious credibility. So when you place them in the roles of the terrorized parents in POLTERGEIST, it already makes you care about the characters more. While the original film will always be one of my all-time favorites, I was surprised at how much fun I had with this new film and much...
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This isn't just a few pissed off spirits...The first trailer for the new take on Poltergeist arrived back in February, offering the first proper look at the new family being bothered by some pesky supernatural troublemakers. Here’s the latest promo, which brings some new footage.This time around, the focus is on the Bowen family, dad Eric (Sam Rockwell), mum Amy (Rosemarie DeWitt) and kids Kendra (Saxon Sharbino), Griffin (Kyle Catlett) and Madison (Kennedi Clements), the latter of whom becomes the main focus of supernatural attention.

20th Century Fox and MGM have released a the first TV Spot (aired during Empire season finale) for the upcoming reboot of "Poltergeist" starring Sam Rockwell, Jared Harris, Rosemarie DeWitt,Saxon Sharbino, and Jane Adams.Legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi (“Spiderman,” “Evil Dead”, “The Grudge”) and director Gil Kenan (“Monster House”) contemporize the classic tale about a family whose suburban home is haunted by evil forces.

20th Century Fox has made some changes to its summer schedule, moving its Poltergeist remake up by two months while also delaying the Paul Feig/Melissa McCarthy comedy Spy and the young-adult adaptation Paper Towns.
Poltergeist will now arrive on May 22 while Spy has moved from that date to a June 5 slot. Paper Towns, which is based on The Fault in Our Stars author John Green’s book of the same name, moves to July 24.
That means Poltergeist, which stars Sam Rockwell and Jared Harris, will face off against Brad Bird and Damon Lindelof's George Clooney-starring Tomorrowland.

The first trailer for the "Poltergeist" remake has dropped, and it looks...pretty much like the same movie as Tobe Hooper's 1982 original, actually. So what was the point of remaking it at all?http://www.hitfix.com

It’s here! The full trailer for the Poltergeist remake, and it sure does look almost like a note for note rehash of the original 1982 horror blockbuster. It also doesn’t look nearly as bad or, perhaps more importantly, as toned down and family friendly as we all expected.